Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Waiting on Wednesday {35}: The House Between Tide by Sarah Maine

“Waiting
On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine,
that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Scotland’s
Outer Hebrides, a secret in the basement, atmospheric, an author compared to
Kate Morton? Yes, please! This one looks so good I can’t wait to get my hands
on it.

Title: The House Between Tides

Author: Sarah Maine

Publisher: Atria Books

Release Date: August 2, 2016

Fans
of Kate Morton will love this atmospheric and immersive debut novel of a woman
who returns to her ancestral home in Scotland and discovers a century-old
secret buried in the basement.

Following
the deaths of her last living relatives, Hetty Deveraux leaves her strained
marriage behind in London and returns to her ancestral home, a crumbling estate
in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, with the intention of renovating and reselling it
as a hotel, much to the dismay of the locals. As she dives headfirst into the
repairs, she discovers human remains beneath a rotting floorboard in the
basement, with few physical clues to identify the body. Who was this person?
And why the makeshift grave?

Hungry
for answers, Hetty sets out to unravel the estate’s secret—and those of its
former inhabitants, including Beatrice Blake, a woman who moved there a century
ago with her husband Theo, a famous painter who seemed to be more interested in
Cameron, a young local man, than his own wife.

Following
whispered rumors and a handful of leads, Hetty soon discovers that no one knows
exactly what happened to Beatrice, only that her actions have reverberated
throughout history, affecting Hetty’s present in startling ways.